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Gotcha. I thought maybe they were planning to skip GPT-5 or something.

That's actually a pretty low bar, FWIW. (rimshot) Law students spend a few months in bar prep to memorize a bunch of crap that doesn't even apply to their real jobs. Maybe the AI will encourage bar associations to finally ditch it, a development that gained some steam during the pandemic.[1]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/bar-exam-who-nee...

Wait, why 6?

Sports venues, too. They have the Amazon version installed at Climate Pledge Arena and a few baseball stadiums, but I've seen something similar at a walk-up beer fridge during a Nets game at the Barclays Center.

Alternatively, you can trade them in.[1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/l/9187220011

How did it fail? They just announced that eight stores were permanently closed after having been closed indefinitely, one of which was inside of an Amazon office that shut down last year.[1] It looks like they still have 29 Go stores open nationwide.[2]

[1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-closing-eight-amazon-go...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011

Gotcha. You were a hobbyist before. That makes sense.

I hear you on the instruction. I used to teach climbing courses as a volunteer, and it was always nice watching people grow more confident.

> I'm now an airline pilot

How did you make this move? I've day-dreamed about this, but curious to hear details from someone who did it.

We're getting closer to Infinite Jest.*

* As in The Entertainment at the center of the novel, not the novel itself, which fails to wholly consume the reader in the same manner as The Entertainment despite being captivating enough for a book.

You replied to a post above about the inverse ETF, suggesting that that poster was cherry-picking dates. The entire point of the inverse ETF was to take advantage of the ARKK's unrealistic returns in the preceding year.

Just for kicks, though, here's ARKK versus VTI and cash since April 2020.[1]

[1]: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...

Ideally, that should net out to an expensive market-neutral fund with 0% expected returns minus the management fees and transaction costs, the latter of which could be really high.

> Note: The time period was constrained by the available data for AXS Short Innovation Daily ETF (SARK) [Dec 2021 - Feb 2023].

Including monthly investment doesn't really help, either.[1]

[1]: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...

That makes sense. It fits with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connects Tacoma (urban economic hub) to the Olympic Peninsula (some small towns, mostly wilderness).

Square wants more store credit. The more lock-in, the better.

> I've never seen a toll bridge that had tolls in both directions.

Huh, I think I've only seen this once (the Tacoma Narrows Bridge). Other toll bridges I've driven have all had tolls in each direction, e.g., Ambassador and Blue Water Bridges to Canada, Lake Washington floating bridge. Maybe I need to start taking more bridges to nowhere!

Apparently merchants can avoid it with store credit:

> Additionally, we offer a number of resources and tools to assist sellers in accommodating this change. Our Return Policy Guide & Templates provide sellers with guidance on how to create a return policy that best suits their business, while Square’s free eGift Cards can serve as an option for providing store credit to buyers with no additional processing fees.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Medicare, not Medicaid, although she may be eligible to use Medicaid to supplement.[1]

[1]: https://www.medicare.gov/basics/costs/help/medicaid

Interesting. I had the opposite experience after placing an early pre-order for the F-150 Lightning. The expected delivery date kept slipping back, the price kept increasing, and the salesman I was forced to interact with had no idea what was going on. They did refund quickly after I cancelled, though.

In Seattle, a converted apartment will generally have much lower build quality (e.g., wood walls rather than concrete), so it's not going to appeal to someone in the market for a purpose-built condo. The business of selling condos is also significantly less attractive to developers.[1]

[1]: https://kuow.org/stories/why-are-condos-in-seattle-so-rare-a...

Wouldn't that suggest that the development is lagging existing demand? Jersey City seems like a prime spot for spillover demand from Manhattan, so I'd probably expect that cycle to continue until it reaches parity with similar neighborhoods.

> an app for dominoes pizza

This is a nitpick, but customer-facing ordering and delivery technology arguably is the main product for Domino's Pizza. The food basically defines replacement level, but the tech differentiates the experience from other shops.

Can you name a functioning example of design review, though? My experience with them is specific to Seattle, and the program absolutely does not work as your comment hopes.

That's a contradiction in terms, AFAICT. I was excited to find this in the post:

> Meanwhile, a bill moving forward in the legislature introduced by Representative Amy Walen (D-48, Bellevue) would ban design review for housing projects statewide.

I have this bookmarked to contact my reps and senator to join as co-sponsors.[1]

[1]: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1026&Year=2023...

> why the emojis in question are financial advice

I'm behind on Money Stuff, so I had to go check his column. Unlike the confused headline, he doesn't say anything about "financial advice" because it's irrelevant here. The Twitter account's emoji usage was relevant to establishing that it was marketing securities by promising a return on investment.

Recent-ish episode of the Odd Lots podcast that's relevant: What Truckers Already Know About the Future of Electronic Worker Surveillance.[1]

[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-truckers-already-...

Right. They're razors, not commandments. Given a choice between two reasonable alternatives, it might be wise to pick the one that's {unrepetitive|simple|explicit|extensible|testable}.

Thanks for updating.

I'm curious how you compiled the data. Perusing the Seattle-based entries, there are some whose URLs don't resolve, e.g., Pure Blue Water Innovation Nexus (probably defunct: http://pureblue.org/) and IntuitiveX (just needs SSL: https://intuitive-x.com/). This one doesn't appear to have an incubator or accelerator: Navigator CRE (https://www.navigatorcre.com/). Maybe the source dataset has some older entries that have gone stale.

> Are you saying I shouldn't have it behind an email-wall?

Yes. Readers can't see anything without signing up for a newsletter. The link you just provided would be much better.

I clicked through because I thought this was interesting, got confused because there was no ability to sort or filter the list, and then realized that it's just a landing page to capture newsletter sign-ups. That appears to run afoul of the Show HN guidelines.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

That's how a mortgage broker works. It would probably require a lot more staff to operate that way.

> They are the first company that comes to mind when I hear Peter Thiel talk about stagnation.

Was the irony intentional, or just a happy accident?